Batwoman #13 is out this Wednesday, so here are J.H. Williams III's draft pencils, inks and final colors for the cover. You can see his comments for each part on his blog, but the part I found most interesting were his thoughts on DC not giving enough warning when it came to their banner choice:
Now this final stage has nothing to do with me. This is all DC. There was insistence that the covers use the Arrow banner, a last minute add on into the process, something I had no control over, so they had to lower the image a bit to accommodate. I get that they sometimes use that space for banner adds, but what I don’t like is when I’m not told in advance so I can design around it. Then the logo and text was changed to something I feel is way overpowering to the composition, they felt the first version was too confusing, which I disagree with. Since the image had to be lowered to allow for the banner add note how the upc box on the lower right corner interferes with the movement now. All of these changes work against the composition greatly, the result looks like something scattered and undesigned, like something thrown together…
